USDA to School Kids: Eat Your Vegetables

Students who are offered more fruits and vegetables in their school lunches tend to eat more of these healthy food choices. But there are still a lot of kids who won’t touch their vegetables, especially if there’s anything else on the menu.

Photo by Lance Cheung/U.S. Dept. of AgricultureElementary school students get a taste of a new school lunch menu created to meet the new USDA lunch standards at the Yorkshire Elementary School in Manassas, Virginia.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a lot to fret over – rural development, housing, ag commodity programs, food stamps. As if these and dozens of other programs weren’t enough, the department is also in charge of trying to get school kids to eat their vegetables.